Colombia

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The department of Chocó is one of the regions most affected by the ongoing conflict in Colombia, and is also one of the least developed in the country. Local insurgent presence has increased throughout the latter half of 2014, and threats on communities have led to their confinement for fear of being accused of partisanship, and of landmines (Colombia has one of the highest annual rates of landmine victims in the world). This confinement has impacted the cultivation of crops and other forms of agriculture, leading to localised food insecurity.The livelihoods of 6,500 people in rural Chocó are thought to be affected, mostly through confinement to their local communities. However, an estimated 1,500-2000 of these are thought to be at risk of being specifically targeted by insurgents, and for them the situation is all the more critical.